Jayla P.O.V.
Next day
"Wait, who pregnant?" I ask Bella. "T-" I cut her off. "Wait I'm getting a next call" I mumble then answer the blocked number. "Jayla speaking, how may I help you?"I say. "Jayla you still mad at me?" Jackson ask. I end the call with him. "Anyways Bella, who's pregnant?"I ask. "Ta-"I cut her off again. "Wait, my mom is calling"I mumble then answer my mom's call. "Keep Demi occupied until I get there please, and make sure she doesn't mess up her dress, you better put on the dress she choose for you, I'll be there in about an hour so we can go to the party" she says. "Okay" I mumble. "Bella I gotta go" I mumble. "Okay, but seriously call me later, you have to know this" she says. "Okay" I mumble then hung up my phone. "Demitrea" I yell through the house. "She went over by Daddys house" Ne' says. "Okay" I mumble. I put on my uggs and was about to walk out but Heaven stopped me. "Someone's on the phone for you" she says. I take the phone from her. "Hello" I say. "Jayla don't hang up" Jackson says. I roll my eyes. "What do you want Jackson" I mumble. "Why you mad at me?" He ask. "Cause you picked some temporary bitch over me"I say. "Who said she temporary Jayla, what if I really love her?" He says. "Well that's on yo ass, you can have her ,I don't give a damn, if you wanna put her infront of me thats you, I don't care anymore" I say. "Why you trippin though" he mumbles. "Cause I been down for you since day one and you finna treat some chic you met a couple weeks ago better than me, was she there when you were sick, when you went bankrupt, when your momma passed away, no Henry, I was though, and that's how you repay me, by putting some chic infront of me? But then again, I ain't got no time to be chasing your ass" I say. I could only here him breathing, he didn't say anything, just breathed. I sigh and hang the phone up.
"Happy Birthday Princess" MJ says to Demi. "Thankyou, are you coming to my party?" She ask. I tone them out. Whoever Demi wanted over here, my dad flew them over to Cali. I stare at the caller ID picture I have set for Jackson. We were doing silly faces at an amusement park he took me to. That was the place where we 'accidentally kissed'. Or so we call it. Cause I'm like 5'2 and he's I want to believe 5'9. We were in a mirror maze and we kinda got lost so we were just sitting talking then the air just became really dense like it was filled with lust. He made me straddle him then we kissed a few times, but I stopped him, cause he was still dating Justice and I don't want to be any side chick. I don't want to be main chick either cause that just means that he has side chicks but I'm his main. I want to be a dudes girlfriend, not main chick. My phone continues to ring. Demi sighs. "MJ hold on" she says. "You're not going to answer it?" She ask. I shake my head no. She sighs and rolls her eyes then picks it up and answers it. "What'd you do to Jayla?" She ask. "Okay. Okay. Bye" she says then hands me my phone. "He said he loves you, and he needs to talk to you, so call him" she says then continues face timing MJ. "Wait Princess, who love Jayla, and who she finna be calling?" He ask. "Don't worry" Demi says making me smile, she looks back at me then winks. "Come on Mommy just reached home, we have to go" I say. It's only noon and the party starts in 30 minutes. "Okay, I'll see you at the party princess" MJ says. "Yeah yeah, whatever" she says then hops off the bed. I watch her walk out. She's wearing a black and white striped ruffle top with a hot pink pencil skirt, and a hot pink blazer, with matching Jordans. No matter how girly, we will forever where sneakers. I hop off the bed and sigh. She's making me wear a dress unfortunately.
"These taste so good" I say. My mom looks at me and laughs. I laugh. "What?" I mumble. She smiles and shakes her head then continues tending to Lani. King turns the song to a slow song. I glare at him."Partner up people, this one goes out to my sister Jayla, who will forever be lonely" he says into the mic making everyone laugh, including me. The cameramen come all up in my face. "I'll dance with you Jayla" G says. I smile. "I'm okay"I say. He nods his head then continues guarding the door. "May I have this dance?" I hear Jackson ask. I turn around and look at him. "please" he says with pleading eyes. I sigh then stand up. He takes my hand and leads me into the crowd of people, Demi knows alot of people, alot of these people are like producers or actors or dancer and singers. "You know I love you right" he says. Why does every single speech a nigga saying to me start with that. "Okay" I mumble. He moves my hands from by the sides of my body to around his neck. "Jayla I'm sorry, um" he mumbles then scratches his head making me smile, he's nervous. "It wasn't- um I didn't- um I shouldn't have put her before you, what you told me earlier today had me thinking, you were there with me through everything, and I thankyou for that" he says. I lay my head on his chest. He rubs my back. "Wait, hole on hole on hole on, put some light on them right there" I here King say. The light shines on us. A riple of ooohs and awes exploded. "We're just bestfriends, Kingsley" I say. "Oh dude, she just friend zoned you" he says. I look at Jackson who's looking everywhere except at me. "Kingsley take the light off your sister" I hear my grandma Lidia say. "Yes grandma" he says making the crowd laugh. He changes the music and we sit down at a table in the corner of the room. Jackson is looking at everything except me and I'm sitting up in my chair leaning on the table with my hand under my chin watching him. "Did I friend zone you for real?"I ask. He sighs then looks at me. "How? You did it to me first. When we started getting closer I thought you was just being friendly cause you had just started dating Justice. So in my head I was like, well he can't like me cause he just got him a girl so I was thinking maybe you just wanna be real close friends"I say. He grabs my hand then kisses it. "Yeah, I like you, so what" he says. "So why didn't you tell me?" I ask. "Cause Jayla, when we started hanging out more you kept getting your heart broken by that nigga, and every time you would call me upset at him, you would be venting to me saying 'I ain't ever finna date one of my brother friends again, not any of them, they all jackasses' and all that shit, so I took it upon myself to get me a girl to keep my mind off of you" I says. "I'm sorry , I didn't know" I mumble. "Mmmh" he mumbles rubbing my knuckles. "But you know I don't want to be in a relationship right now" I say, he nods his head still looking at my hands. I look over at my parents and brothers who are conversing with celebrities and family. "One kiss" I mumble. He looks at me. "You ain't gotta do that Jayla, I understand-" I cut him off. "No I want to" I mumble. He chuckles and shakes his head. "That's what you think you want, you don't want to kiss me because you want to, you want to kiss me because you feel sorry for me" he says. "That's not true" I say. "Yes it is"he say standing up. "Jackson come here and kiss me" I say. He shakes his head and starts walking away. I grab his wrist and pull him infront of the girls bathroom. "Listen. I am going to kiss you. And your are going to like it, got it" I say. He doesn't say anything. How the hell am I supposed to reach all the way up there. "Can I go now?" He mumbles. "No, you aint leaving till we kiss" I say. He sighs and picks me up then passionately kisses me, one hand holding up and the other on my waist. Damn, in the maze was just a few pecks, this kiss is everything. He pulls away and puts me down. "Happy now" he mumbles. I smile. "Why aren't you smiling?" I mumble. "Cause you only wanted to kiss me cause you feel sorry for me" he says. I grab his hands and put them on my ass but he move them up to my waist. "Stop saying that, it's not true, I've been lying to myself personally, telling myself I don't like you. Why do you think I always wanted you over, or I always wore your shirts, or I always punched you, or fell asleep on your chest" I say. He smiles then kisses my forhead. "Aight, we'll see" he says. I smile "we will see" I say. He walks away and I walk to the bathroom to fix my lipstick. I could not stop smiling.
